Sentence examples for defined metaphor from inspiring English sources

As Lakoff and Johnson (1980) defined metaphor as "understanding and experiencing one kind of things in terms of another", metaphor can be used to help designers to express the abstract and intangible substance of a design concept (something) through a metaphoric expression (something else).

While native speakers use metaphor naturally and easily, the treatment and interpretation of metaphor in computational systems remains challenging because such systems have not succeeded in developing ways to recognize the semantic elements that define metaphor.

After an initial exploration of the field of delivery and style (III.1) Aristotle tries to determine what good prose style consists in; for this purpose he has to go into the differentiation and the selection of various kinds of nouns, one of which is defined as metaphor (III.2).

She lacked a defining metaphor, a sense of coherence.

Just as light is a defining metaphor of Oakland diocese's mission, it is also the central design element of the new cathedral.

The book's opening image is also its defining metaphor: On a spring afternoon in 1806, a two-hulled canoe drifts down the Ohio River.

Philosophical minds find connections to Dostoyevsky and Camus by viewing the book's act of senseless murder as "the defining metaphor for a godless age".

In Professor Bolter's subtly developed argument, the computer - obviously enough the present age's defining metaphor - is an outgrowth of both the clock and the steam engine.

There were times though, during the frenetic eight-day shoot, that "the incident with the horse" looked as if it might become the defining metaphor for an undertaking that was fraught going on chaotic.

"Well," she said — and when I thought about it later it occurred to me that I had stumbled across a defining metaphor — "there's a lot of mild stuff, too".

For many Dominicans in New York, these journeys home are the defining metaphor of their complex push-pull relationship with their homeland; they embody, vividly and poignantly, the tug between their current lives and their former selves.